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Phoenicopterus
Taxonomy
Phoenicopterus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type is Phoenicopterus ruber. It is the type genus of Phoenicopteridae, Phoenicopteroidea.
It was assigned to Odontoglossae by Shufeldt (1891); and to Phoenicopteridae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Brodkorb (1955), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Cheneval (1984), Carroll (1988), Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Mlikovsky (2002), Candela et al. (2012), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017), Worthy and Yates (2018), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Odontoglossae by Shufeldt (1891); and to Phoenicopteridae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Brodkorb (1955), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Cheneval (1984), Carroll (1988), Emslie (1992), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Mlikovsky (2002), Candela et al. (2012), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017), Worthy and Yates (2018), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Species
P. chilensis, P. copei, P. croizeti, P. floridanus, P. minutus, P. novaehollandiae, P. roseus (syn. P. antiquorum), P. ruber (type species), P. stocki